Questions tagged [notify-send]
For the questions about the notify-send command used to send desktop notifications
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How to programmatically kill a notify-send window?
I have a bash script that opens a window with notify-send. I would like to close that window when the script ends, but I can find nothing to kill.
The question is a duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/...
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notify-send won't show up on generic X sessions, but works in a KDE session
I have Suse Tumbleweed, and sometimes I work in a KDE Plasma session on X, and in this case notify-send works as intended.
Othertimes I use icewm or compiz as my window managers, and in both cases ...
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Execute a task after waking up from Suspend/sleep
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Fedora 40, Gnome 46, Wayland
systemctl --version
systemd 255 (255.6-1.fc40)
notify-send --version
notify-send 0.8.3
Task
I want to execute the following task after waking up from Suspend/sleep, ...
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How to get user desktop notifications from a sudo-run systemd service on Wayland?
I'm running KDE Plasma on Nobara (Wayland), a Fedora-based distro. I'm brand new to Wayland and Nobara/Fedora, and have very limited experience with systemd.
I have a bash script that sends a desktop ...
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notify-send: send notification from script running as root [duplicate]
In my desktop environment, I am using dunst as notification daemon, and I can send notification as:
notify-send "some message"
I have a terminal window open, where I am logged in as root, ...
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How can I change the text colour in a Plasma-desktop notification?
I am using Plasma-desktop notifications for all kinds of things, often from scripts using kdialog or notify-send. My Plasma desktop uses a dark background with a light foreground (text). Until a few ...
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sending discord notification if changes in bash output (will be put in a cron)
I need to recieve a discord notification if this command does not have the string "No differences discovered" in the last 2 lines of the output. Ive been at it for hours I dont get it! and ...
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notify-send with stderr in notification body if there is stderr
Suppose I have a command like:
foo() {
echo a
echo b >&2
echo c
echo d >&2
}
I use the following command to process stdout in terminal but send error via notify-send
foo ...
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How do I notify-send a long command?
I want to use notify-send to show a notification every n minutes to tell me the vpn status.
The command would be running in a popup terminal I have already set up, hidden from view until I need to ...
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What is the notify-send alternative command in Pop! OS
I use notify-send in Manjaro Linux to send notifications, as follows:
notify-send [OPTIONS] [Message Summary] [Message Body]
However, I moved to Pop! OS and I found that command not found: notify-...
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How to customise the appearance of notify-send?
I am running linux mint and use the notify-send command for various purposes, and of course also receive notifications from regular applications e.g. discord or MS Teams
When using Cinnamon DE, they ...
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Notify-send to login screen in Debian 11
I used this method to send a message which is triggered by udev to the login screen. Which was working on Debian 10 with Gnome.
On Debian 11 this is not working anymore. The user Debian-gdm which owns ...
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Elegant way for notification when power button pressed
I want to display a notification for user via notify-send when power button is pressed.
Power button has a special script attached which allows to shutdown only when specified amount of time has ...
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notify-send from fcrontab not displaying notification
Referenced these links with no success. Most of them seem to be ubuntu, gnome, and cron syntax specific.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/298608/notify-send-doesnt-work-from-crontab/346580#346580
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notify-send to display desktop notification from script running as different user
I have the following script:
#!/bin/sh
notificationMessage="Your session is going to expire soon"
if [ $# == 2 ]; then
notificationMessage="Your session is going to expire in $2 hour&...
